[TheClimate.Vote] July 20, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

/July 20 , 2017/

*State of Emergency in British Columbia Extended as Wildfires Rage 
<https://www.voanews.com/a/state-of-emergency-extended-british-columbia-wildfires-rage/3951106.html>*
VANCOUVER —
British Columbia's government took the unprecedented step on Wednesday 
of extending a state of emergency by two weeks as it battled 155 
wildfires that have forced nearly 50,000 people from their homes.
Enbridge, which took a natural gas compressor station offline and 
canceled planned maintenance work, said on Sunday it had no timeline for 
restarting the station.
https://www.voanews.com/a/state-of-emergency-extended-british-columbia-wildfires-rage/3951106.html
- more:
*(Video) Something Big is Going On! California Wildfire Causes Mass 
Evacuation* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIOOi5hU3hk>
California Wildfire Forces 2,000 Mariposa Residents To Evacuate.
Detwiler Fire Surges Past 25,000 Acres, Threatening Mariposa.
Evacuees in Mariposa County anxious for news from wildfire lines.
Mariposa County wildfire scorches 7,100 acres.
MARIPOSA FIRE- Wildfire near ear Lake McClure, a reservoir about 50 
miles east of Modesto.
Town evacuated as fire swells in Mariposa County.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIOOi5hU3hk
-more:
*MASSIVE FIRE THREATENS POWER SUPPLY IN YOSEMITE 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3XVgPaDKiM>*
Published on Jul 19, 2017
MARIPOSA COUNTY, CA - A massive wildfire in Mariposa County nearly 
doubled in size overnight as flames destroyed structures, threatened 
power to Yosemite National Park and forced 4,000 people to flee their homes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3XVgPaDKiM


*Eight Republicans backed Jerry Brown's climate change bill - here's 
what that means for their political futures 
<http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-cap-trade-climate-change-california-legislature-political-landscape-20170719-htmlstory.html>*
Eight GOP votes were pivotal in passing the cap-and-trade bill and gave 
Brown's plan an imprimatur of bipartisanship that is rare on big-ticket 
legislation - particularly on bills concerning climate change.
"When you can lock something in with support of Republicans and 
Democrats, it has durability," Brown said Monday night.
Although cap and trade may be on solid ground, those GOP members now 
find themselves in thorny territory.
The Republican base largely despises the measure, calling it burdensome 
regulation that will increase gas prices. Conservative talk radio and 
bloggers have railed against cap and trade, and the Wall Street Journal 
editorial board lashed out Tuesday at GOP lawmakers' "political 
self-sabotage and voter betrayal."
Assemblyman Rocky Chávez (R-Oceanside) said he expected more of his 
colleagues - as many as 12 GOP lawmakers total - to join him in backing 
the bill.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-cap-trade-climate-change-california-legislature-political-landscape-20170719-htmlstory.html


*Climate Scientist Says He Was Demoted For Speaking Out On Climate 
Change 
<http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/19/538216232/climate-scientist-says-he-was-demoted-for-speaking-out-on-climate-change>*
Joel Clement, a scientist who was director of the Interior Department's 
Office of Policy Analysis for much of the Obama Administration, was 
recently reassigned to work to an "accounting office," the agency's 
Office of Natural Resources and Revenue.
In an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post, he wrote that he 
believes he was retaliated against for "speaking out publicly about the 
dangers that climate change poses to Alaska Native communities." He says 
that he's turning whistleblower on an administration that "chooses 
silence over science."
In his former role, Clement advised the Obama Administration on Arctic 
issues. He authorized a report to Obama in 2013 that warned the Arctic 
is warming faster than any other region on Earth and that the 
implications of the change would include "rapid coastal erosion 
threatening villages and facilities, loss of wildlife habitat, ecosystem 
instability... and unpredictable impacts on subsistence activities and 
critical social needs."
Clement wrote in the op-ed that in the months preceding his 
reassignment, he had raised the issue with White House officials, senior 
Interior officials and the international community...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/19/538216232/climate-scientist-says-he-was-demoted-for-speaking-out-on-climate-change


*ClimateNexus Hot News <http://climatenexus.org/>*
*2017 Heats Up: *The first half of 2017 was the second-hottest on record 
and last month was the third-hottest June on record, new global 
temperature data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration show. The new NOAA data, combined with figures released 
last week from NASA, suggest that 2017 is well on its way to being the 
second-hottest year on record, trailing only 2016. "Personally, I wasn't 
expecting it to be as warm as it has been," NOAA scientist Ahira 
Sanchez-Lugo told Climate Central. "After the decline of the strong El 
Niño [in 2016] I was expecting the values to drop a bit and rank among 
the top five warmest years. This year has been extremely remarkable." 
(The Guardian 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b5d9adf42d&e=95b355344d>, 
Washington Post 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=ed88e40db8&e=95b355344d> 
$, Climate Central 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=c511f094d3&e=95b355344d>)
http://climatenexus.org/


*(audio + transcript) Signs Of Climate Change - Past, Present And Future 
- On Plum Island (7:24) 
<http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/19/climate-change-plum-island>*
Plum Island is mostly a national wildlife refuge. It's a long, narrow 
spit of sand 50 miles north of Boston.
You can see evidence of climate change past and present there, and get a 
glimpse of the future.
The island was created by climate change. Over millions of years, 
natural forces made the planet a lot colder and the ocean sea level a 
lot lower.
Nowadays, it's hard to believe Plum Island was once buried under half a 
mile of ice. Eleven thousand years ago, the glacier began receding, 
leaving a scarred landscape that was sculptured by wind, waves and 
currents into today's barrier island beach.
To shore up the property, Tolpin said, "we put up these big boulders all 
the way up to the edge of the deck."
Plum Island homeowners did not have permission to bring in the boulders, 
but there were few complaints. A large share of the coastal community's 
property taxes are paid by the owners of these expensive beachfront homes.
The rocks were covered with sand scraped off the shore, but erosion is 
relentless.
"It's a losing battle eventually, and there is a good, good chance that 
all these houses eventually will be gone," he said. "No matter what our 
president says, climate change is occurring."..
The Plum Island shoreline is a case study in the complexities of 
human-caused global climate change interacting locally with man-made 
structures and coastal development...
"It might not be 2030, it might not be 2075, but at some point the ocean 
will win out."
Plum Island is a minor, fragile footnote in geological time -- just one 
of Massachusetts' 681 barrier beaches. But those beaches help protect 
1,500 miles of the state's coastline counties, where two-thirds of our 
residents call home.
http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/19/climate-change-plum-island


*World's young face $535 trillion bill for climate* 
<https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/>
The next generation will have to pay a $535 trillion bill to tackle 
climate change, relying on unproven and speculative technology.
By Tim Radford
LONDON, 19 July, 2017 – One of the world's most famous climate 
scientists has just calculated the financial burden that tomorrow's 
young citizens will face to keep the globe at a habitable temperature 
and contain global warming and climate change – a $535 trillion bill.
And much of that will go on expensive technologies engineered to suck 
1,000 billion metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the 
air by the year 2100.
https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/


<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901>*This Day 
in Climate History July 20, 2006 
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901> -  from 
D.R. Tucker*
July 20, 2006: NPR reports on the GOP's show trials, er....
"The House Committee on Energy and Commerce took up the topic of global 
climate change Wednesday, focusing on an eight-year-old study suggesting 
that the world is warmer now than it has been in a thousand years. 
Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) used the hearing to question the study and 
the debate over global warming."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901

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